Entries Categorized as 'business'

UK Govt in plea to games industry

Date October 6, 2006

A UK government minister has a made a plea to the video games industry to get involved in the debate about how much time kids are spending in front of their consoles.
From the article:
Last month, 100 signatories, including neuroscientist Baroness Susan Greenfield and author Philip Pullman, wrote a letter warning that today’s children face an [...]

ex-HP Chair Starts Pointing the Finger

Date September 28, 2006

The BBC is carrying the story that Patricia Dunn, ex-Chairwoman of HP, is now pointing the finger at her CFO in the “pretexting” scandal that cost her her job.
According to a statement that she will submit to a House Committee investigating whether HP broke any laws (although, I think that point is moot), she assumed [...]

Corporate Blogs - CIOs need to get naked.

Date September 15, 2006

This article by Jim Turner opens with a great obvservation:
Many businesses don’t want to be the leader in new and different ways of corporate communication.  They like to be copycat for the things that work.  Until companies begin to embrace blogs as an online marketing tool and a way to communicate with clients and customers, [...]